Protest

Chai led the demonstration Saturday morning after a clash with a professor earlier in the week, where the professor allegedly questioned her choice of clothing for a trial run of her thesis presentation on rehabilitation for displaced people and refugees.

ByAndrea Valdes | May 3, 2018

Prof. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, African American studies, Princeton University, joined Prof. Edward E. Baptist, history, in a panel to examine the state of protest politics in the 21st century as a mode of enacting social change.

BySophie Reynolds | April 24, 2018

A protest that broke out during a lecture required the speaker, Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, to be escorted out of the room by Cornell University Police Department officers on Monday.

The dissent at Cornell appears to be part of an international protest by Chinese students studying overseas who have distributed similar pamphlets in at least twelve different universities around the world.

An umbrella of activist student organizations will stage a “peaceful, ethically fair and inclusive demonstration” outside of Statler Hall during Cheney’s speech to represent other political perspectives, according to Omar Din ’19.